A crop that focuses more on the watermelon.
CRW_4166.jpg.out.pp3 (12.3 KB)
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Morning, @gadolf
Tricky task!
It is very easy to bring out much more from the shadows.
But those blown watermelon highlights are more problematic.
Hm, I wonder what’ll happen if I … … …
I’ll be back!
Have fun,
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Oh , my watermelon was overexposed. Did some adjustment…
Just in case you don’t know how to do that, I would do the following:
1 - Uncheck Clip out-of-gamut colors box
2 - Check Highlight reconstruction box
3 - Move the Highlight compression slider to your taste.
I’m a Darktable user, but when it comes to highlights recovery, I get better results with Rawtherapee: after recovering in RT, I just export a 32-bit REC 2020 tif, then I do all the rest on DT.
You’ve got some pretty nasty artifacts on that region, but the overall edit that you did is pretty close to what the scene was, in terms of lighting and colors.
My edit was purposely dark to represent my vision of that scene: the watermelon and specially the light reflection beneath pop up in front of me.
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There is something wrong with your highlight reconstruction.
Strange… I opened the raw file and applied your last pp3 and got this:
Still blown out but not bad, and totally different from your jpg.
And if I check Highlight reconstruction I get this:
Are you editing the raw file (.DNG)?
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@DxO-user also open my pp3 (below), go to the Advanced Tab and look for the Wavelets section.
There you have much more control on noise reduction.
My settings in there are just an example of a very quick tweak to reduce noise, but FAR from good, just a starting point. I couldn’t reduce almost any luminance noise, but, at least, some chrominance noise has gone.
CRW_4166.DNG.pp3 (11.1 KB)
Yes , I’m editing the RAW file - But I have to use local adjustment to get control over the blown out highlights in the melon.
As a newbie to RT , I have to use to this kind of adjustment.
If not using RAW , I have to save as a tiff and do the rest in Affinity ( have never used Affinity in this forum)
@gadolf
My first take with PhotoFlow.
I have been testing some experimental tone mapping code on your image, and this is the best I could achieve so far… I will add the photoflow .pfi file once the new code is committed on github.
P.S: I made no attempt to reduce the noise for the moment…
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@Carmelo_DrRaw Looks promising.
Glad to see that my watermelon can be useful to your development process 
Sorry, what is this screen about?
I really don’t know Rawtherapee…
I have made 3 control spots ( appears as an elipse )
Inside each elipse there is a small round circle. Hit this small circle and you can move the control spots up/down - right/left to your likings.
In this case I used thwe control spots to adjust the exposure …
Don’t mind the straight line.
And what would the result be?
Taken from another picture , but I think You know what I mean
Exposure
Vibrance
Local adjustment comes in handy. Once you get used to it - you can’t live without it
@gadolf, fellow users, watermademoiselles {cap’s off}
Best result I managed was rawpeeparis’ sacrificing natural looking (contrast) highlights to a Log munch scream puddle in exchange. Where is? I could swear I’ve been there.
CRW_4166_1800_RT_v2.jpg.out 2.pp3.zip (4.2 KB)
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